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21 lip 2017 · It’s been nearly 20 years since Hong Kong’s Kai Tak International Airport closed, but its unique, notorious landing approach is still very much alive in the memory of those who experienced...
On 7 February 1980, a China Airlines Boeing 747-200 B-1866 (later B-18255) had a tail-strike incident while landing at Kai Tak International Airport en route to Taipei from Stockholm Arlanda Airport via King Abdulaziz International Airport and Kai Tak.
Hong Kong's old Kai Tak airport offered spectacular opportunities for plane watching. Approaching aircraft were required to make a sharp turn before skirting...
18 maj 2020 · With its runway given the nickname "Kai Tak Heart Attack", the airport was well known among pilots and passengers for its hair raising approach. Kai Tak was, like Osaka Itami, surrounded by urban development.
Here's a look back at the famous IGS 13 on a typical overcast day. Kai Tak Airport From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Tak... AIRBOYD -...
11 lip 2018 · Closed in 1998 to make way for a bigger — and way easier to land at — airport, Kai Tak was famous for a fiendishly difficult approach to a runway in the middle of Kowloon Bay that forced pilots to maneuver steeply, just above the roofs of a heavily populated city, before hitting the brakes hard to avoid ending up in the water.
7 lip 2021 · By the 1990s, Kai Tak was among the world’s busiest airports: in the top three for passengers and number one for cargo. For a time, runway 13/31 and its checkerboard approach was the busiest single runway at any airport in the world. But the airport’s success could not continue indefinitely.
